Eva Margareta Frölich, was a Swedish mystic

Mysticism

Mysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...

, a fortune teller, prophet

Prophet

In religion, a prophet, from the Greek word προφήτης profitis meaning "foreteller", is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine, and serves as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people...

, visionary

Visionary

Defined broadly, a visionary, is one who can envision the future. For some groups this can involve the supernatural or drugs.The visionary state is achieved via meditation, drugs, lucid dreams, daydreams, or art. One example is Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century artist/visionary and Catholic saint...

 and Pietistic writer

Writer

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Biography

Frölich was born the daughter of colonel Hans Christoffer Frölich and Elisabet von Plessen. The location and exact date is unknown. Her brother, Karl Gustaf Frölich, was ennobled count.

She was married in Riga

Riga

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 in Latvia

Latvia

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, then a Swedish Province, with Johann Henning Neumeijer, colonel in the Swedish army, whom she abandoned in 1684, when she arrived in Stockholm

Stockholm

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 in Sweden in the company of the goldsmith Berendt Doerchmann and made herself known as a prophet and a preacher. She was received by king Charles XII of Sweden

Charles XII of Sweden

Charles XII also Carl of Sweden, , Latinized to Carolus Rex, Turkish: Demirbaş Şarl, also known as Charles the Habitué was the King of the Swedish Empire from 1697 to 1718...

, where she predicted that he was to be the founder of the Thousand year Kingdom of Christ and rule over the entire Christianity. The same year, she was sentenced to exile and traveled to Hamburg

Hamburg

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, where she published her work about millennialism

Millennialism

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 and the seven congregations in the bible, which caused her banishment from the city. She then settled in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, where she published many of her work and continued to be active as a prophet and a preacher, still assisted by Berendt Doerchmann.
One of her oppinons was, that women should be allowed to preache.

Return

She returned to Stockholm in 1692, where she held speeches against the priests "almost worse than before" and tried to publish her work. She was arrested and put in jail, where she died the same year.

Her theology has ben described as a mix between spiritualism

Spiritualism

Spiritualism is a belief system or religion, postulating the belief that spirits of the dead residing in the spirit world have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living...

, pietism

Pietism

Pietism was a movement within Lutheranism, lasting from the late 17th century to the mid-18th century and later. It proved to be very influential throughout Protestantism and Anabaptism, inspiring not only Anglican priest John Wesley to begin the Methodist movement, but also Alexander Mack to...

, ortodoxy and the punismentideology from the Old testament. She was a Lutheran, but attacked the literary version of the priests.